On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Nathan Schneider <neatn...@gmail.com> wrote: > What would be the expected behavior of "aabbccdd".replace(('a', 'aa'), ('x', > 'y'))? It's not obvious to me whether longer replacement strings ('aa') or > earlier replacement strings ('a') should take priority.
I'm actually not sure, so I would look at prior art. But in any case, this is a question you can't even ask until replace() accepts multiple arguments. Hence I'm +1 on the notion of simultaneous replacements being supported. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/